Valkerij Valkenswaard Museum (Netherlands)

Valkerij Valkenswaard Museum (Netherlands)

The Valkerij Valkenswaard Museum tells us about the catching and training of falcons in Valkenswaard in the period from 1650 to the middle of the 19th century. It also tells about how and why the falconers of Valkenswaard offered their birds and services to every important European principality.

In the museum is possible to see: slide presentation on the past of the Falconry in Valkenswaard; representation of a farmer’s living room and of a falconer’s livingroom, about 1750; survey of the travelling of the Valkenswaard’s falconers; information on catching and training falcons; model of a catching place; catching with falcons, represented in a lifelike diorama; attributes for falconry; works of art, books and other documentation on falconry.

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